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liOri^E  OF   IIEPRESENTATIVES,  May  -<.  is.;  J.— L<^:      n  die 
table,  artd  onJered  to  be  prinrei. 

[By  Mr.  Skxton.] 


JOITs^T     RESOLUTIO^s^S 

of  the  State  of  Texa=, 

Wlievoas,  tlic  present  war  %vagecl  by  the  Uoxcnmietit  of  tlie  I'nitod 
States  upon  the  Governiuent,  people  and  propcry  of  the  Confclerate 
States,  is  without  prece<lent  in  its  atrocity  and  uuc-liristinn  clmrar-ter  ; 
and  whereas,  the  comparative  exemption  of  (mw  own  <lear  Scav.f  froin 
many  of  tiie  more  dire  concomitants  of  war,  may  h;»Ae  been  construed 
ag  a  cause  for  our  unanimity  in  sustaining  our  (.'overnment ;  there- 
fore, be  it 

1st.  Beso/ved  hi/  the  he.p^iditlun  of  t/ic  Staic  of  Tr.nis,  Th.it  junv  tliat 
our  presumptuous  enemy  treads  our  soil,  in  heavy  numbers  and  mcn- 
iK'ing  attitude,  we  bid  him  a  proud  and  scornful  defiance. 

2d.  That  we  pledge  to  our  sister  States  that  in  this  struggle  our 
■authorities  and  our  people  will  evince  a  patriotism  and  endurance  as 
great  as  the  occasion  and  as  prolonged  as  the  conilict. 

3d.  That  although  as  a  free  people  we  have  exercised  the  rights  of 
criticism  upon  the  acts  of  our  Tresident  and  his  (Cabinet,  yet  wc  here 
record  our  full  contidence  in  the  patriotism  and  ability  of  President 
Davis  ;  and  do  furthermore  declare  that,  if  remitted  now  to  our  op- 
tion, we  would  not  exchange  him  for  any  citizen  of  the  Confederacy, 
as  the  pilot  to  carry  us  through  the  present  storiny  -truggle  for  lihrr/i/^ 
as  a  people,  and  for  independence  as  a  nation. 

Approved,  December  16,  1863. 

Spatk  of  Ttx.vs,  Depaiumem  of  JusTrcE. 

I,  Robert  J.  Townes,  Secretary  of  State  of  the  State  of  Texas,  do 

certify  the  above   to  be  a  true  and  correct  copy  of  the  original  joint 

.  ^-^      resolutions   on  file  in   this  department.     Witness  my  Itand 

<  SEAL.  J  and  official   seal,  at   Austin,   this   twenty. third   dav  of  De- 

^  --  '  eember,  1863. 

R.  J.  TOWXES, 
Si'cretary  of  Sfote. 


